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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Historical Thinking Lesson PlanSheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Historical Thinking Lesson Plan
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Stanford University
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9th - 10th
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Historical Thinking

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[Free Registration/Login Required] This chart elaborates on the historical reading skills of sourcing, corroboration, contextualization, and close reading. In addition to questions that relate to each skill, the chart includes descriptions of how students might demonstrate historical thinking and sentence frames to support the development of these skills.

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document-based, historical claim, historical inquiry, historical thinking skill, dbq, ohio ah.ht.3, ohio h.ht.1, reading like a historian, sheg, primary source, understanding history

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RH.6-8.7 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.8 RH.9-10.9 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9 RH.11-12.10

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